A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations
Rene Raymond Rivera
- Manuel
- (as a different name)
Vince Cupone
- Young Cuban
- (as Vinny Capone)
Chris Northup
- Retro Yuppie
- (as Christopher Todd Northup)
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- TriviaWriter/director Paul Schrader experienced a unique problem while filming was underway in New York City. The film is set during a sanitation worker strike which called for large amounts of uncollected trash to be prominently featured in exterior scenes. But since the real New York City sanitation department was very much on the job they would inadvertently collect trash that was meant to be a part of the film's production design.
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(Agami / Belmaati / Christiansen / Moller)
© 1991 Megasong Publishing, Denmark
Performed by Wizdom-N-Motion
Courtesy of Mega Records, Denmark © 1991
Featured review
Rare work of genius from erratic maverick Schraeder
I've never cared for his work before but Schraeder made an outstanding and penetrating low-budget feature with 'light Sleeper.' It's script is detailed and exceptional in it's depiction of people you can believe are real. It's perhaps too sympathetic towards drug pushers, people I usually have contempt for, but the lead character LeTour finds nothing but grief through his involvement. It dares to depict them not as cold assassins, but people who need each other and fall in love. LeTour's repetitive playing back of his estranged girlfriend's answer machine voice is particularly poignant. Not many film's tackle the issue of encroaching middle age and it's financial uncertainties, although many may find the depiction of drug dealing as 'just another job' offensive. Since being arrested may be a matter of unrelated chance, the characters rely on astral charts, crystal ball gurus and 'aura' specialists. This, being refugees from the mystical sixties counter culture, gives them a spurious sense of security. It's this very superstitious belief that his luck may be running out, that drives LeTour into paranoia and his own eventual downfall.
The weakness of this film is it's familiarity with Schraeder's other films, especially the diary, almost to the point of being a greatest hits tour. The ending is a straight lift from his own 'American Gigolo' and rather lazy redemption. The musical accompaniment to the action throughout is also not to my tastes artistically, but does not damage the picture. Performances, even to the smallest parts, are excellent. Willem DaFoe, an under-used resource in Hollywood, gives an emotional and gifted performance and Sarandon is superlative as ever.
The weakness of this film is it's familiarity with Schraeder's other films, especially the diary, almost to the point of being a greatest hits tour. The ending is a straight lift from his own 'American Gigolo' and rather lazy redemption. The musical accompaniment to the action throughout is also not to my tastes artistically, but does not damage the picture. Performances, even to the smallest parts, are excellent. Willem DaFoe, an under-used resource in Hollywood, gives an emotional and gifted performance and Sarandon is superlative as ever.
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- Also known as
- 迷幻人生
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- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,050,861
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $46,302
- Aug 23, 1992
- Gross worldwide
- $1,055,987
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